Largest gathering of people dressed as penguins: Australia breaks Guinness World Records record (VIDEO)

Phillip Island, Australia -- Nearly 900 people waddled to Phillip Island Nature Parks — home of the world-famous Penguin Parade — to shatter the Guinness World Records world record set by a London children's hospice; donning uniformed onesies, complete with a penguin-head hood, the flock packed Phillip Island's parking lot near the nature park's colony of Little Blue penguins, setting the new world record for the Largest gathering of people dressed as penguins,
according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/. Photo: Nearly 900 people waddled to Phillip Island Nature Parks — home of the world-famous Penguin Parade — to shatter the Guinness World Record set by a London children's hospice in 2014. Photo: Herald Sun (enlarge photo)

Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as fruits; it is 404 and was achieved by Bund Badicher Landjugend (Germany) at Freiburg, Germany on 8 November 2014. Nearly 900 people waddled to Phillip Island Nature Parks — home of the world-famous Penguin Parade — on March 7 to shatter the Guinness World Record set by a London children's hospice in 2014.

The number of participants more than doubled the Richard House's record of 373.

The successful attempt also raised money for the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.